Reduce the following quadratic form to canonical form by
diagonalisation: [JNTU 2000]
9.6x
2
+ 3y
2
+ 3z
2
− 4yz− 4zx− 2xy
Ans: x
2
+y
2
+ 7z
2
r= 3, s=
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